With campuses in Donegal, Sligo, Mayo, and Galway, ATU serves a diverse community of learners, staff, and organisations and offers a unique blend of academic excellence, research innovation, and quality of life.

ATU is on the path to becoming a hub of talent attraction, education, and retention. We are committed to bolstering economic, social, and cultural development across the west, northwest, and cross-border areas.

With a student body exceeding 26,000 across 600+ undergraduate and doctoral programs, ATU fosters a community where success is elevated through shared goals and achievements. Our commitment to academic excellence empowers students to become responsible citizens, critical thinkers, and lifelong learners.

ATU remains deeply rooted in industry engagement, offering courses that meet current and future workforce needs. By forging strong ties with regional employers, we create sustainable employment opportunities and drive growth in our local economies.

As part of ATU, students embark on a journey as global citizens, engaging in international research collaborations and gaining exposure to study and work placements abroad.

Since 1999 the School has undergone rapid growth, now offering four undergraduate, a dual undergraduate and postgraduate and two further postgraduate degree programmes to approximately 635 students. DCU’s programmes attract high numbers of applicants, with the CAO points being among the highest in the University.

The Physical Education and Sport Sciences (PESS) Department is a vibrant and rapidly growing department in the Faculty of Education and Health Sciences. PESS offers undergraduate and postgraduate academic taught programmes, as well as extensive research activities including research centres and themes, collaborations and research publications and funded projects.

Maynooth University is committed to a strategy in which the primary University goals of excellent research and scholarship and outstanding education are interlinked and equally valued. Maynooth University is undertaking a major expansion in the area of sport and exercise science to include additional undergraduate and postgraduate programmes, and strengthening research activities in the general thematic area of health. Maynooth’s focus is on the health-related aspects of exercise and sport, particularly human health and well-being, rehabilitation, and healthy aging.

SETU is an international, entrepreneurial and connected multi-campus Technological University that will drive sustainable economic, environmental, cultural and social development in the south east of Ireland.

SETU offers a student-centred education and is committed to lifelong learning, access, equality and inclusion, and to the provision of a comprehensive educational offering.

The Department of Sport and Health Sciences at TUS Athlone Campus offers a suite of bachelors of Science honours degree programmes in Sports Science with Exercise Physiology, Nutrition and Health Science, Physical Activity and Health Science, and Athletic and Rehabilitation Therapy and an ordinary degree programme; Exercise and Health Science.

The Department of Sport and Early Childhood Studies at TUS Midwest offers programmes on both the Moylish and Thurles campuses.

The undergraduate sports programmes include Applied Sport Science, Sports Coaching and Sports Management, with Physical Education and Business commencing September 2025.

The postgraduate offerings include a MA in Leadership in Workplace Health & Wellbeing and a MSc in Applied Sports Performance which will also start in September 2025.

With internationally recognised degrees at undergraduate and graduate level in sport, highly research active faculty, multiple sport industry partnerships in Ireland and abroad as well as state of the art facilities, UCD provides students with a stimulating and multifaceted learning environment, preparing them to contribute to the sport and exercise science profession on a global scale.